Dillon Brooks admits to targeting Steph Currys…
All is truthful in love and battle — and apparently playoff basketball.
Enigmatic Rockets wing Dillon Brooks is never one to draw back from a struggle and he all but confirmed he was targeting the thumb damage Steph Curry suffered during Wednesday’s Game 5 to help his group secure a 131-116 home win and stave off elimination.
“I’m playing the game,” Brooks stated when requested if he was targeting Curry’s thumb when defending him. “Shoot, if you’re going to come play the sport injured, whatever you’ve bought, it’s all about the sport.
“If I had an injured ankle, I would attack that ankle every single time. So whatever they’re saying on the broadcast, they can keep saying it.”
Stephen Curry injured his thumb Wednesday evening. Getty Images
Curry apparently harm his thumb in Game 5 when Brooks made contact with Curry’s proper hand after he took a jumper, with the all-time great shooter livid that Brooks didn’t get known as for a foul.
The Warriors star wore a wrap and had ice on his injured thumb postgame.
When requested whether or not the Rockets have been intentionally hitting Curry’s hand to worsen the damage, Draymond Green stated, “I think it’s pretty obvious.”
“You don’t think about it,” Curry added. “If it’s a foul, they should call it.”
Dillon Brooks is all the time an instigator of fights. AP
The Warriors trailed by double-digits for most of the sport Wednesday and relied on their reserves for a lot of the second half, which allowed Curry a lot of time to relaxation since he performed only 23 minutes.
Things still bought chippy, though, while the Rockets sliced their collection deficit to 3-2.
Dillon Brooks admitted he was taking part in the sport when it got here to Curry’s injured thumb. NBAE via Getty Images
Up by 13 factors with 4 minutes remaining and the Warriors having unloaded their bench, Brooks and reserve Pat Spencer bought into a tussle, with Spencer ultimately ejected for head-butting Alpren Sengun.
Spencer, a former faculty lacrosse participant, went brow to brow with Sengun before head-butting the Rockets’ stars. A scrum ultimately separated the 2 groups.
Rockets middle Alperen Sengun is separated from Trayce Jackson-Davis. AP
Friday evening’s Game 6 ought to have a lot of intrigue and physicality as the Warriors look to close out the Rockets at home.
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